2023-06-28 12:28:25
After more than four decades, Harrison Ford puts an end to his adventure as the legendary archaeologist in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Fate, which opens in theaters this Thursday. The fifth installment of the saga is the first that is not directed by Steven Spielberg, but by James Mangold.
The filmmaker has tried to assume everything that Ford and his character represent, at 81 years old. “He is one of those few great heroes who is not perfect, who has his own phobias and fears and who is an intellectual rather than a man of action”, explains the director.
In an interview with Europa Press, Mangold reviews the archaeologist’s heritage and past until arriving at his film. “He is a very inspiring character, at least for me because he is full of contradictions,” he says.
In order to maintain the essence of the originals in the face of the hero’s farewell, Mangold has tried to get closer to the type of action that Spielberg used in the original films. A type of action that, unlike other Mangold films such as Logan or The 3.10 Train, has an inseparable comic aspect.
“Indiana Jones has a great legacy in humor. Nowadays we have a lot of action and adventure movies, youngsters also have comic book and superhero movies, which present quite a brutal action world. The action in the Indiana Jones movies must be spectacular, but there is also a lore first created by Steven [Spielberg] y George [Lucas] for the originals where there is also a kind of fun action”, analyzes the director.
“It’s a Bugs Bunny, Road Runner, Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd or Rube Goldberg kind of action… A kind of madness that almost looks like a musical number,” he adds.
In this regard, and despite Ford’s advanced age, for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Fate from the study they managed to include some sequences thanks to CGI technology. It is a technique with which the actor is rejuvenated through computer-generated images, in this case taking Indiana Jones back to his 40s.
Indiana Jones, a unique saga for James Mangold
Apart from the action and the imperfect character prototype, Mangold also believes that Indiana Jones is a unique saga in the cinema for those who were behind it. “The original is one of the great movies of all time and certainly one of the most entertaining. It’s amazing to bring together so many great talents: Spielberg, Lucas, John Williams, Harrison Ford in his first major leading role in a movie… What a work of art it is”, praises the filmmaker, happy to be able to continue that legacy. }
“They are films made for the love of cinema,” he says in this regard.
Faced with the criticism that cinema faces in reference to the overexploitation of nostalgia for old stories and characters, Mangold considers that Indiana Jones and the Dial of Fate cannot be included among the examples. “The film is the fifth in a saga regarding a beloved character, so it’s inevitable that there will be certain things in the story that look to the past,” he defends himself.
“This is a hero from a golden age who lives in a time when that kind of heroism has almost faded away,” he considers.
“The first three Indiana Jones movies take place in a moment of unprecedented idealism. They give that impression of classic Hollywood cinema from the Golden Age, they take place in a time of Nazis once morest allies, of good guys once morest bad guys, when the world was very clear, ”he says, trying to differentiate his film from those.
“In Indiana Jones and the Dial of Fate it’s different, as I think it was different for The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, because it’s a period of modernity, a world in which the good and the bad are not so easy to identify. . And the world is no longer so focused on history, people are consumed by the culture of individualism and look more to the future than the past”, he concludes.
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Fate opens in theaters this Thursday. In addition to Ford, the film stars Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Mads Mikkelsen, Antonio Banderas, Karen Allen and John Rhys-Davies, among others.
The soundtrack, in addition, is once once more composed by John Williams and has Steven Spielberg and George Lucas as executive producers.
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